URUMQI, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The China-Central Asia Gas Pipeline has delivered more than 300 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China since the pipeline was put into operation, the PetroChina West Pipeline Company said Thursday.
The pipeline runs from the border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, passes through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and links up with China's West-to-East gas pipeline in Khorgos of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
With a total length of 1,833 km and a designed annual gas transmission capacity of 60 billion cubic meters per year, the pipeline has been operating stably and safely since it was put into operation in December 2009.
So far, the natural gas imports via the pipeline account for more than 15 percent of China's total consumption, benefitting more than 500 million people in China.
